Turd, can I call you Turd? Anyway, I will touch on some of your comments.
#1 On managed game ranchs, they do shoot the biggest, mature bucks. They hold off shooting them until they are at least 4.5 years old, usually 5.5 years old. This way the buck can achieve its full potential.
Now if you are talking about high fence ranchs....some of them never shoot the biggest bucks! They are too valuable as breeders, and for selling their sperm, or offspring from dominant does.

Shooting mature bucks(usually the biggest bucks in the woods)is a proven management practice for a healthy, balanced herd. Big bucks are merely a nice biproduct of this practice!
And I did not learn that from the "human weasel" as you call him.

#2 Not being there, I cannot say what Alts "snide little grin" really meant, but I would have to agree with his words. Regardless of what ANY HUNTER says, you put a big 10 point and a little 6 point beside each other, during legal season= 1 million shots fired at the 10 point, 0 shots fired at the dink!

#3 I read a transcript of an Alt meeting where he was asked just how many Insurance companys come to him about lowering herd #`s?
His reply was that nobody from the Insurance industry has ever come to him about it!
Even I thought that was odd, so I asked my insurance agent about it. My agent said that deer/auto accidents don`t bother the Insurance companys one little bit. They have statistical data that tells them how many of these accidents occur in any given region annually. And since they have this data, they simply adjust the rates for each given region. Doesn`t cost them a dime!

#4 As far as Forest Co. goes... I have hunted that county sparingly for over 30 years myself. I must agree with you on your observations as far as deer sitings go. I think you feel it is because of doe harvests. I feel it is much different than that.
30 years ago, there were still many working farms in that region, now there are very few! Also, and the biggest reason, IMHO is that deer herds in big timber country like Forest Co. fluctuate in direct proportion with the timbering cycles. Immediately after major timbering takes place deer have more cover, and much better browsing in the timber. At times like now, when the majority of the forest is mature, the undergrowth is long gone, along with the cover. The land can only hold X amount of animals.
I am not saying that doe tag #`s, or other strategies by the PGC has had no negative effect on the herd, but I don`t think it is anything more than the natural cycle in big timber country.

I could be way wrong here, my wife tells me I usually am!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
But thats my story, and I`m sticking to it!

NRA,UBP,BASS Member
New Stanton,PA